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If you want to call it "inbreeding" I'd say that was accurate; as I understand it, there is a modest fitness depression associated with it.
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07-26-2018, 10:10 AM | #422 | |
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It also encourages sibling-incest, as practiced by the Egyptians. but yes, cousin-marrying is historically extremely common, and I've heard claims that historically kissing cousins is closer to average than second cousins. This is what comes of never going more than 10 miles from your village, or of being on edge with all the other roving bands. From what I understand, its only bad if you let it compound by having a society that can keep 95% of all people to breeding age.
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Likewise, the pelvic changes require visualization; before x-ray, that pretty much means highly invasive and dangerous physical exam, surgery, or posthumous examination. Those changes, however, can also be caused by hysterical pregnancy.... they are, however, very reliable indicators of having had a pregnancy or a hysterical pregnancy. |
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07-26-2018, 08:21 PM | #427 | |
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On the other hand, if the society is patrilocal and if it recognizes the immunity of women, exogamy can be an advantage in wartime, or indeed in any other diplomatic crisis because in-laws are handy ambasadresses. I do not know of any society that has that particular custom but I have read of traditionally using women as diplomats. Sometimes I have wondered if Vorwomen on Barrayar did that back in the days of strife. Alys serving as the powerbroker may not be as surprising as some readers might think.
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I think this is one reason that in the Third Imperium of Traveller nobility is created by, and sword directly to, the Emperor himself. Despite intervening levels of nobility between a baron and the Emperor the baron is ultimately sworn to the Emperor and not the count and duke in between. Quote:
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